truculent
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Aggressively defiant and eager to argue.
The truculent witness sparred with counsel.
Business adjective
Aggressively defiant and quick to pick a fight.
Their truculent negotiator contested every clause, dragging the session past midnight.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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